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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






3. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






4. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






5. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






6. Academic Language Therapy Association






7. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






8. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






9. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






10. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






12. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






14. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






15. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






16. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






17. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






18. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






19. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






20. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






21. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






22. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






23. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






24. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






25. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






26. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






27. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






28. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






29. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






30. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






31. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






32. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






33. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






34. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






35. Closed syllable






36. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






37. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






38. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






39. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






40. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






41. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






42. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






43. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






44. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






45. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






46. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






47. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






48. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






49. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






50. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test